lf-hour![A] This
disobedience was the exception which proved the rule.

[A] The substance of this anecdote which I quote from memory,
appeared in the _Daily News_, and happened at Newcastle.

Mr. Gladstone was a friend for whom Sir Andrew had the highest respect
and veneration, and hardly ever passed a day without going to see him.
Shortly before he was taken ill he said: "For twenty years I have never
heard Gladstone say an unkind or vituperative word of anyone."

[Illustration: NURSE HARRISON--LONDON HOSPITAL.
(The nurse who tended Sir Andrew Clark in his last illness.)
_From a Photograph by Mavor & Meredith._]

With respect to fees, he always took what was offered: sometimes he
would receive L500 for a long journey, sometimes two guineas. The
following is no doubt but one of many similar experiences. After a hard
day's work he was urgently summoned to a place 120 miles from London. It
was a very wet night. There was no carriage to meet him; no fly to be
had. After walking a mile or two he arrived at a small farm, and found
the daughter suffering from an attack of hysteria. Sir Andrew, with his
usual kindness, did what he could and evidently gave satisfaction, for
when he left the mother said: "Well, Sir Andrew, you have been so kind
we must make it double," and handed him two guineas. He thanked them and
said: "Good-bye."

Sir Andrew would never hear of charging more than his usual fee because
a person happened to be very rich. In a word, he was honest. On one
occasion when going to see a patient in the south, the doctor who was to
meet him in consultation met Sir Andrew at the station, told him they
were rich, and quite prepared to pay a very high fee. But Sir Andrew
replied: "I did not come from London," and naming the place where he was
staying, said, "My fee is only a third of the sum you name." Sir Andrew
was not indifferent to fees; on the contrary, he rather took a pride in
telling how much he earned. He is said to have once received L5,000 for
going to Cannes, the largest _medical_ fee known. Some, however, have
wondered who did pay him--so numerous were his non-paying patients. From
Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy, sisters, nuns, and all engaged in
any charitable work (unless rich men) he would never consent to receive
a fee, at the same time making it felt that unwillingness to accept his
advice "would deprive him of a pleasure"; and it was felt that this was
literally true, and if anything